Black Twitter Does Not Mess Around: The Rise and Fall of #RachelDolezal

So, something so absolutely nuts happened on Thursday, June 11th, that many of us are still reeling in partial disbelief. News reports began circulating that Rachel Dolezal, the president of the local NAACP chapter in Spokane, WA and a professor of Africana Studies at Eastern Washington University, had been passing herself off as a Black woman for ten years.

But of course, never wanting to be left out, some white folks joined in and tried to defend Dolezal's actions by starting the trending conversation on what it means to be #transracial: the idea that one person may be born as one race, but identify internally—and thus seek to identify externally—as another. The only problem is: that's not a real thing. So of course, Black Twitter had to clap back at these folks as well…

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